Ruth 1:1

Revised Standard Version

In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a certain man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 26:1

Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines.

Genesis 43:1

Now the famine was severe in the land.

2 Samuel 21:1

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

1 Kings 18:2

So Elijah went to show himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.

1 Chronicles 2:51

Salma, the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth-gader.

1 Chronicles 2:54

The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.

Psalm 105:16

When he summoned a famine on the land, and broke every staff of bread,

Psalm 107:34

a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

Jeremiah 14:1

The word of the Lord which came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

Ezekiel 14:13

“Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it, and break its staff of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast,

Ezekiel 14:21

“For thus says the Lord God: How much more when I send upon Jerusalem my four sore acts of judgment, sword, famine, evil beasts, and pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!

Leviticus 26:19

and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like brass;

Amos 4:6

“I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to me,” says the Lord.

Micah 5:2

But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days.

Deuteronomy 28:38

You shall carry much seed into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

Judges 12:8

After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

Judges 17:7

Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.

Judges 17:8

And the man departed from the town of Bethlehem in Judah, to live where he could find a place; and as he journeyed, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.